Classic Quotes Collection

I embrace mistakes. They make you who you are.

I don't like two stories. I like one story. I never grew up with stairs. I like to stick to what I know.

My dad was into the 1950s doo-wop era. If you look at those groups, or at James Brown, Jackie Wilson and the Temptations in the 1960s, you'll see you had to be sharp onstage.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

My goals are - I don't need much. I'm a simple man. I think that success is having fun. And when I'm having fun doing music, I'm happy. If I can make a little money on the side doing it, I'm really happy.

I don't throw lavish parties or nothing like that - I just want a bed and a TV.

You can't knock on opportunity's door and not be ready.

Music is not math. It's science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.

I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.

It's about you putting in the work, practicing every day, and hopefully one day you write the song the whole world wants to get down to. And one day you're going to be sitting next to Ellen DeGeneres talking about how you broke records and rocked the Super Bowl!

You pick up some fans and a handful of haters along the way.

I've learned people are watching, so don't do nothing stupid.

Someone told me something that stuck with me 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while.

There's always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

I guess if I'm a product, either you're chocolate, you're vanilla or you're butterscotch. You can't be all three.

If I was a billionaire, I'd be smart with my money.

I always say I wanna work with Alicia Keys. I'm in awe of her.

I just write songs that I strongly believe in and that are coming from inside. There's no tricks. It's honesty with big melodies.

Hawaii is paradise. It sounds cheesy to say it, but there's music in the air there.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It's not super-poetic, it's just from the heart.